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Mangling Keats through online translation to get a cheap laugh

by fwordsblog | Aug 11, 2011 | Words & communication

Had a lot of fun today putting the first verse of Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale” through an online translation facility. Translating into Swahili and back wasn’t amusing enough for me, so I then ran subsequent English versions through Icelandic, Filipino, Welsh,...

Spammers delight me with gloriously incomprehensible English

by fwordsblog | Aug 11, 2011 | Words & communication

Felt initial delight on checking site stats, at seeing a relatively enormous number of comments had been posted. Most turned out to be spam, which was mildly disappointing, though funnily enough I actually rather enjoyed reading them. Is it compulsory, I wondered, for...

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